"There's not some, 'Oh yeah, we're playing Detroit this week; we hate Detroit,' " third-year safety Anthony Walters said. "That's not the mentality at all. The mentality is one game at a time, and the reality is if we beat them this week, we're two up [on the Lions in the NFC North]."

OK, you'd expect that from a player who hasn't seen as many on-field shoving matches as others. What about a 16-year veteran like Patrick Mannelly?

"I think anytime you play a division team it's a little more heated, just because you see them twice a year," he said. "Being with a team as long as I've been, I've played against some of those guys for a long time. I wouldn't call it fighting your brother, but it's just the familiarity of the rivalry maybe intensifies a little bit just because you're sick of seeing each other so much."

Fans with siblilngs can relate. So if the Bears-Green Bay rivalry is a "10," atop the scale, then Bears-Detroit is …

"… a 10," Walters said.

"To me … they're all the same," Mannelly said. "To win [against a division foe] is a little bit more than winning another game as far as playoff implications and things like that."

Uh, nice try, guys. You won't get ANY Bears fan to say Bears-Lions is bigger than Bears-Packers. Point taken, though—as a player, the Zen mindset has advantages.

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